Before Southern Craftsman

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Intent on preserving her home's architectural details and character, Ashley Gilbreath wanted to salvage and restore. "I reused what I could and replicated anything new to be as close to the original as possible," she says. "If I'd wanted a brand-new house, I would have bought one." With extensive structural rebuilding, she brought back the beauty.

Here's how she made the transformation.

A Southern Craftsman Restoration

Montgomery, Alabama-based designer Ashley Gilbreath works through years of neglect to restore her 1910 Craftsman-style home that's just doors down from where Zelda Fitzgerald once lived.